Janette Anne Cullins, 25, was found dead in her Pacific Beach apartment in San Diego on April 14, 1984. Her body was concealed in a closed bedroom closet and the cause of death was asphyxia due to strangulation; investigators estimated she had been dead one to two days before discovery. Wood chips near the front door suggested the apartment had been forcibly entered.

Investigators tied her killing to a series of violent crimes across California in spring 1984. Dean Phillip Carter, 28, who had met Cullins at a San Diego bar in February, was later arrested and linked to multiple rapes and murders. Cullins’s car was found abandoned several blocks away, and ATM footage captured a man resembling Carter withdrawing money from her account on April 13. Personal items belonging to Cullins were recovered from Carter’s vehicle. Carter was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances and sentenced to death for her killing.

Did anyone in Pacific Beach at the time notice the vehicle seen outside Cullins’s residence the night before she was found, or have information about her movements in early April 1984?